Folia Historica 28. (Budapest, 2013)

II. KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Ewa Letkiewicz: The Hungarian King's Daughter Kinga's 13th Century Jewel in Polish Collections

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Current arrangement of the mementoes connected with St. Kinga, treasury of Poor Clare's convent in Stary S^cz, (Photo: Ewa Letkiewicz)

the gem of Sqcz, also in the quoted relics we have to do with a concise, crude and not very precise manner of stone cutting, poor elaboration of proportion, both of the head and face, as well as the particular portrait features: the exaggerated eye, presented en face, mouth marked with a narrow slit, casual, thickly marked contour of hair.

Portrait cameos had been discovered and elaborated by the antique world, but their traditions were presented in time and were still unusually popular in mediaeval times, until the beginning of the 14th century, when the use of gems suddenly

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Jewel with gem, treasury of Poor Clare's convent in Stary S^cz, reverse (Photo: Ewa Letkiewicz)

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